This is my annual Pride Month repost of this message of love ... I don't often make religious claims with absolute certainty. Not my style. But I am gonna' do it right here, right now. After studying the life of Jesus in the Gospels for the last 40 years, I can state with absolute certainty […]

Good Friday is dark. The compassionate, merciful, God-man dies a criminal's death at the hands of religious and political leaders. The Messiah, full of despair and feeling deserted by God the Father, cries out, "My God, why have you forsaken me?" Even the earth wept and quaked. Yet somehow, we call it good. Emil Brunner, […]

And he is in the face of your neighbor, in the cries of the poor. In the bellies of hungry children, in the prisoner, the sick, the naked, the lost, the lonely, your enemy. Happy Easter, friends. He is risen. Jesus is on the loose. And you have one job -- go find him. And […]

Today is Good Friday, the day we remember Jesus and his crucifixion. Scottish preacher Robert Murray M'Cheyne speaks of the darkness of it all: He was without any comforts of God--no feeling that God loved him-- no feeling that God pitied him--no feeling that God supported him. God was his sun before--now that sun became […]

To all my mamas of LGBTQ+ kids (big or little): You are fierce. You (most likely) have been through fire. You love your child with ferocity. You are my heroes. I have sat with you as you weep not for who your child is, but for fear of what the world might do or say […]

In honor of International Women's Day, I am reposting a tribute to men. ******** These are the men … The men who are over the moon to become fathers to little girls. Who play rough and tumble, but also hold close. Who teach their girls to be brave, as well as beautiful. To be courageous, […]